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BASKETBALL / NBA
Oct 10, 2017

Rakuten, NBA teaming up in media partnership deal

Rakuten, Inc. is active in expanding its brand on a global scale, partnering with some of the world's most famous sports teams like soccer powerhouse FC Barcelona and the reigning NBA champion Golden State Warriors this year.
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BUSINESS
Oct 9, 2017

American 'Nudge' theorist Thaler wins this year's economics Nobel

U.S. academic Richard Thaler, who helped popularize the idea of "nudging" people toward doing what is best for them, on Monday won the 2017 Nobel economics prize — officially called the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for his work on how human nature affects...
SOCCER / J. League
Oct 8, 2017

'King Kazu' wants to continue reign

Fifty-year-old soccer legend Kazuyoshi Miura insists he has no plans to retire any time soon, even joking that the day he stops will be "the day I die."
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ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Oct 8, 2017

Bluster or legit threat? Trump remarks show North Korea military option on U.S. leader's mind

Bluster or legitimate threat, U.S. President Donald Trump's latest castigation of North Korea has again left observers wondering if the leader will greenlight some kind of military action against the country in a bid to halt its seemingly inexorable march toward a credible nuclear strike capability....
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ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 8, 2017

Kim Jong Un boosts sister within North Korea's inner circle

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has promoted his 28-year-old sister to the ruling party's political wing, bringing her closer to the center of power and tightening the family's control of the regime.
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CULTURE / Art
Oct 7, 2017

Hiroshi Sugimoto: The illusion of architecture

The renowned artist made a name for himself by capturing time in a photograph. Now he attempts to do the same with an art complex in Odawara ...
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2017

Collectible manhole cards detailing Japan's intricate designs top 1 million issued

A total of more than 1 million collectible cards featuring pictures of manhole covers with unique local designs have been issued in Japan since distribution began in April last year, a group promoting the cards has said.
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JAPAN
Oct 7, 2017

Japan Times' 120th anniversary exhibition kicks off in Yokohama

An exhibition showcasing The Japan Times' 120 years of reporting on the nation's most important historical moments opened Saturday in Yokohama.
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WORLD
Oct 7, 2017

Canada to compensate aboriginal children removed from families

Canada will pay up to 750 million Canadian dollars ($598 million) in compensation to thousands of aboriginals who were removed as children from their families decades ago, a top official said Friday, promising to end "a terrible legacy."
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 6, 2017

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike defends her party's policy of not granting foreign residents in Japan the right to vote

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike defends her recently launched party's policy of denying foreign residents here the right to vote or run in local elections, stating that such measures are necessary to protect the national interest.
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SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 6, 2017

England uninspiring in victory over Slovenia

Gareth Southgate wanted England to qualify for the 2018 World Cup finals in style. Harry Kane's late winner in the 1-0 win over Slovenia on Thursday sealed England's place in Russia, but a match of numbing tedium was so poor Sunday's now academic final group match in Lithuania will test the loyalty of...
Reader Mail
Oct 6, 2017

Turn on your car headlights, please

Regarding "Police caution drivers over risk of fatal accidents at dusk" in the Sept. 15 edition, I have always been puzzled as to why Japanese road users, even in the worst weather conditions, habitually drive without using their headlights.
BUSINESS
Oct 6, 2017

Rengo to demand 2% pay hike at spring wage negotiations

The Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) will request a pay scale increase for the fifth straight year during the 2018 shunto spring labor-management wage negotiations, according to sources.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 5, 2017

Hoshino Resorts, known for luxury, moves into midrange urban market

Hoshino Resorts Inc., known for its luxury hotels and traditional lodgings blending Japanese aesthetics and contemporary design, is making a foray into the urban hotel market with a new brand targeting tourists.
WORLD
Oct 5, 2017

Islamic State takes credit for deadly attack on court in Libya's Misrata

Gunmen killed at least four people and wounded nearly 40 on Wednesday in a suicide attack on a court complex in the Libyan city of Misrata, officials and a witness said.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 5, 2017

Bangladesh destroys boats ferrying Rohingya from Myanmar, claims they carried drugs

Bangladeshi authorities have destroyed about 20 boats that ferried Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar, accusing smugglers of using the huge exodus to bring methamphetamine into the country.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 4, 2017

Negative obituaries prove Hugh Hefner was right

Critical obituaries of Hugh Hefner show puritan values still resonate loudly in America.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Oct 4, 2017

Kyoto Seika's next dean, Oussouby Sacko, was schooled in the violent tumult of '80s China

Malian architect lived through protests by Chinese students targeting Africans just months before the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past